Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Uh oh, looks like efforts on the part of Nigerian Christendom to appease their Muslim neighbors have backfired (see: Nigerian MPs burn Denmark's flag).
See Judith Apter Klinghoffer's entry, NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS: OUR APPEASEMENT AND MSM SILENCE IS KILLING US, which includes a link to this statement by the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria at the Anglican Communion News Service:
2. We have for a long time now watched helplessly the killing, maiming and destruction of Christians and their property by Muslim fanatics and fundamentalists at the slightest or no provocation at all. We are not unaware of the fact that these religious extremists have the full backup and support of some influential Muslims who are yet to appreciate the value of peaceful co-existence.
3. That an incident in far away Denmark which does not claim to be representing Christianity could elicit such an unfortunate reaction here in Nigeria, leading to the destruction of Christian Churches, is not only embarrassing, but also disturbing and unfortunate.
4. It is no longer a hidden fact that a long standing agenda to make this Nigeria an Islamic nation is being surreptitiously pursued. The willingness of Muslim Youth to descend with violence on the innocent Christians from time to time is from all intents and purposes a design to actualize their dream...
Someone should inform Rowan Williams and Paul Oestreicher.
(via LGF)
Nigeria here is a particularly prominent and illuminating instance of the coal miners' canary - excepting, of course, for the willfully self-blinded (e.g., the Left) and the resolutely self-affected (e.g., Oestreicher). We are still at the beginning of all this, but if the West fails to summon, in a more concerted sense, what is basic and necessary, there will be other times to come which will not be at all easy to ignore.